Ali al-Aswad

Ali al-Aswad (died 18 May 2016) was the head of the Islamic State's intelligence body during the Iraqi Civil War. A targeted airstrike by the US Air Force in Mosul killed al-Aswad, his deputy Abu Abdulrahman, and another senior IS intelligence official, and their deaths were announced on 19 May by the KR Security Council of Iraqi Kurdistan.